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Dame Jacqueline Wilson DBE FRSL (née Aitken; born 17 December 1945) is an English novelist known for her popular children's literature. Her novels have been notable for tackling realistic topics such as adoption and divorce without alienating her large readership.
Dame Jacqueline Wilson is an English author who is famous for her children’s book series known as the ‘Tracy Beaker’ series. Born and raised in Somerset, England, she was always inclined toward literature and was an avid reader since childhood.
Jacqueline Wilson, who held the two-year position of Children's Laureate from 2005-2007, writes mainly about young girls, struggling with their own emotions and with the world (and adults) around them.
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Dec 9, 2020 · Wilson herself had what she calls “a strange childhood”. She was born in Bath in 1945, where her parents, Biddy and Harry, met while working for the Admiralty. Her family struggled financially: when Wilson was two or three years old, they moved from their furnished one-bed apartment in Bath to live with her maternal grandparents in Kingston.
- Anna Leszkiewicz
Dame Jacqueline Wilson is a massive fan of the Brontës, especially Charlotte. She read the first chapters of Jane Eyre when she was ten and realised at once it was the best thing she’d...
Jacqueline Wilson, DBE, FRSL is a children’s author best known for her book The Story of Tracy Beaker and more recently the Hetty Feather series. She was the UK Nominee for the international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2014 and has won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award, the Whitbread Children’s Book Award and the Smarties Medal.
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Jacqueline Wilson was born in Bath in 1945, but spent most of her childhood in Kingston-on-Thames. She always wanted to be a writer and wrote her first ‘novel’ when she was nine, filling in countless Woolworths’ exercise books as she grew up.
